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Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

Dne, 17. 02. 2011 01:51:27 je D G Teed napisal(a):
Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied with the new KDE 4.* (frankly, I think it is very poorly designed), I am looking for 
a desktop
which can stack running terminal sessions.

Let's say I have 50 Konsole or gnome-terminal windows open, each to a
different remote box. I want to click on the panel area and select one by name which is already open. I could do that in KDE 3.5. Firefox and other apps could do this too. How is this done in gnome or what options are there 
for managing many open sessions of something?

--Donald


Just an idea:
An intuitive way of doing that in GNOME would be to increase the number of workspaces (virtual desktops) to, say, 12. The beauty of that is that you can define keyboard shortcuts to switch from one workspace to another (binding them to, say, a modifier key + F1-F12 combo). That way, you can switch to any given workspace with just one keyboard stroke. Another practical way of navigating is via a keyboard combination for next-workspace and previous-workspace (i.e. workspace to the left and workspace to the right of the current one). Then, given a big enough screen, you could open 4 gnome-terminals on each workspace, and arrange them so they don't even overlap (i.e. so that you have a clean overview of all 4 at any moment). That way, you have 48 terminal set up for extremely easy navigation. 

Further possible improvements:
a) perhaps GNOME allows for even more workspaces than 12 (I've never needed more -- or less -- than 8, so can't really tell). That way, you could potentially set up 50 different workspaces for 50 individual gnome-terminals, each of them accessible by a dedicated keyboard shortcut; or b) you could group your gnome-terminals by task, in order to memorize them easily. For example, one workspace could be dedicated to just "remote exim servers", another workspace to "remote squid proxies", yet another workspace could be dedicated to rsync sessions, and so on ... 

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